Zen Master Eido Roshi: "Does God Exist?"

TÜMATA Grubu

A Road To Mecca

Much Ado About Nothing

Muslims

Iranian children.


A book-stall in Marrakech.

Zhuangzi

20th Century Turkish Painting

See it here.

Ramazan

The Choices We Make...

Those who make compromises with an unjust system in order to escape a socio-economic underclass enter a moral and political underclass.

Fond Memories

Have Sufis Been Islamizing Europe For Centuries?

Daoist Dervish Ideology

Daoist Dervish ideology is radical, liberationist, and internationalist. Euro-American liberalism is none of these things (there is a difference between internationalism and imperialism).

The Keys To The Kingdom

God has treasuries beneath the Throne, the keys to which are the tongues of poets.

~ Saying attributed to the Prophet Muhammad

The Way

And God Said...

Let there be tea.

The American Leviathan

I stumbled upon this in a used bookstore in Colorado Springs of all places. While I will demur on the question of whether or not it succeeds as poetry, it is a remarkable set of "memoranda" about the role of my hometown in the struggle of capital and labor in the early 20th century, its role in the Big Business that is war, and of the struggle of spirit and the sense of beauty to transcend the American Leviathan.